Mother furious son with life-threatening pneumonia twice turned away from Palmerston North Hospital
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Emergency care improvements relieve Palmerston North Hospital stress
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The board would not name the facilities, citing the interests of protecting residents’ privacy. Increased numbers of admissions to Palmerston North Hospital, many with respiratory illnesses, have contributed to a decision to postpone all planned care, except for cancer treatment and the most acute cases. MidCentral Health acute and specialist services operations executive Lyn Horgan said by 11am on Friday 52 elective surgeries had been put off to help free up in-patient beds. Elective surgeries had also been put off in other hospitals around New Zealand, including Waikato and Christchurch. Many hospitals had restricted visiting to children’s wards. Weir said although RSV was not a notifiable disease, it was helpful that aged-care facilities had kept the public health team informed.